Peace to the brave (Poem) - Give us a place to play (Poem) - I've gotta go to school (Poem) - Be a good boy; Good-bye (Poem)
Summary
The book , written in 1913 , was intended by the author to show school students that there was good litterature being written in their time in their state. Writings by the following authors are included: Bayard Taylor -- Thomas Buchanan Read -- Charles Godfrey Leland -- Stephen Collins Foster -- Frank R. Stockton -- S. Wier Mitchell -- Lloyd Mifflin -- Elizabeth Lloyd -- Thomas Allibone Janvier -- Henry van Dyke-- Owen Wister -- John L. Shroy -- Richard Harding Davis -- Elsie Singmaster
CONTENTS: A NEW ENGLAND RECTORY A WESTERN COLLEGE BEXLEY HALL ANDOVER AND LAWRENCE BEGINNINGS OF THE CAMBRIDOR THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL THE UNKNOWN TEACHER BECOMING KNOWN RECOGNITION. FAME A THEOLOGICAL PORTRAIT. THE APPROACH OF A GREAT SORROW TRIALS AND VICTORIES CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS THE LIFE OF PHILLIPS BROOKs ROME WARNINGS CHICAGO THE APPEAL FOR HELP FREEDOM IN THE CHURCH HAPPINESS AND PEACE
by Henry Woodman, with a biography of the author and the author's father who was a soldier with Washington at Valley Forge during the winters of 1777 and 1778. Authorized by the Woodman family.
The Pennsylvania state college. Studies in history and political science, no. 1
Pennsylvania state college. College series, no. 1
Notes
"List of books consulted": p. 341-345.
Summary
"The author has tried to show that an interesting and important part of the history of Pennsylvania has been indelibly written in the names of its counties, cities, towns and townships...He has made every effort to learn all the essential facts about a particular name, and to secure information from the most reliable and authentic sources." [from the preface] /// Chapters include places named for English Shires, English noblemen, French , Presidents, Soldiers, Women, Indians , Industries, and Geographical Features , Etc.
The genealogical record of the Schwenkfelder families, seekers of religious liberty who fled from Silesia to Saxony and thence to Pennsylvania in the years 1731-1737
Printed for the Board of publication of the Schwenkfelder church, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania [by] Rand McNally & company,
Date of Publication
1923.
Physical Description
xx, 1752 p. front., illus. (coat of arms) plates, ports., maps, facsims. 29 cm.
Notes
A revision of the Genealogical record of the descendants of the Schwenkfelders, by R. Kriebel.
The Genealogical Record of the Schwenkfelder Families: Seekers of Religious Liberty Who Fled From Silesia to Saxony and Thence to Pennsylvania in the Years 1731 to 1737 by Samuel Kriebel Brecht chronicles the genealogy of the followers of Caspar Schwenkfelder, German religious reformer. The book also includes photographs of people, places, and documents; historical sketches; church organization, maps, and other information
Blue book of Schuylkill County : who was who and why, in interior eastern Pennsylvania, in Colonial days, the Huguenots and Palatines, their service in Queen Anne's French and Indian, and Revolutionary Wars : history of the Zerbey, Schwalm, Miller, Merkle, Minnich, Staudt, and many other representative families
